Minnesota saw 186,203 deer harvested in 2025, according to preliminary numbers from the DNR. The statewide harvest was 5% higher than the five-year average.

We were driving down the interstate late at night, Bud Grant and me, talking and watching for deer. I was behind the wheel, and the concern wasn’t that I would crash into a buck or doe. Instead, we ...

Glen Schmitt from Outdoor News shares how the mild winter is boosting local fishing. Anglers are gearing up for the Maple ...

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 6, 2026 edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.

“Winter is a fun time to get out in the crisp air and hunt small game,” said Benji Kohn, volunteer mentor program coordinator with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. “These hunts can be a ...

Iowa is in the middle of its 100th pheasant season this year. Iowa DNR wildlife biologist Todd Bogenschutz says the sport took off quickly and was very popular in the early decades. “Pheasant hunting ...

Hunting pheasants, ruffed grouse, squirrels or rabbits offers opportunities to enjoy the Minnesota outdoors as winter begins. “Winter is a fun time to get out in the crisp air and hunt small game,” ...

Across the vast patchwork of farmland, prairie, and rolling grasslands that once stretched unbroken across the Midwest, wildlife has long depended on a fragile balance between people and the land. Few ...

Youth participants return from a pheasant hunt Saturday on Copus Road. From left, Wyatt Eutsler, 11, of Botkins, Dalton Hunsaker, 11, of Lima, Dean Puthoff of Shawnee Township and Elijah Puthoff, 9, ...

ST. PAUL – With hundreds of thousands of hunters taking to Minnesota’s fields and forests for the 2025 firearms deer season, the Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that safe hunts are ...

Many a graybeard who began hunting at a tender age still hold a tender spot for the start of what used to be known as the upland game season. Deer were scarce and wild turkeys all but non-existent on ...

UPDATE: Pheasant hunting at Rose Lake State Game Area will resume Thursday. The pheasants intended for the first scheduled release will be distributed across the remaining releases for the Oct. 20 to ...